I want a body that works well and does what it needs to. Why can’t the goal be to be healthy? It’s an intangible goal, the pursuit of health, but it’s a noble one. I believe in a certain nobility of exercise. Even then I rarely attach a figure to the goals. With exceptions of training for an event, I’ve never really had a fitness goal, just a vague idea of where I’d like to take my fitness, be it making me stronger, improving my cardiovascular output, more flexible etc. I’d say for 99% of the time, I fit into this category. Your time and effort isn’t wasted if it’s not in pursuit of some pre-determined goal of physical or performance-based outcome. In my opinion, you don’t need to have a goal. I’ll start by saying I think goal setting is something that can be extremely helpful for a lot of people, but its importance in general is overstated. Michael’s question was what should he (as in himself, not Simon Pegg) be doing next? It lead to a little back and forth about fitness goals etc, which is something I’ve thought a lot about over the years. Simon had dropped a lot weight (19lbs according to reports) and now appears really lean – the kind of condition that takes an extreme level of dedication and sacrifice beyond ‘going to the gym’. In the post he referenced the actor Simon Pegg’s weight loss in preparation for a role. Michael had written a post on his excellent blog, The Marple Leaf, about his health and fitness. It’s about the nobility of exercise and whether we need a to exercise in pursuit of a goal. I’m writing this in response to a question I was posed on Twitter recently by my friend, Michael Taylor.
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